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Enhanced Authentication method for Webhooks

We want a enhanced authentication method for webhooks for enterprise security. Specifically we are looking for support for auth beyond basic authentication such as OIDC support.  Some of the tools we operate will no longer support only b...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 5 Future consideration

Support for higher volume (50M) of data ingestion for Metrics and Logs​: 50M for the minumum metric set

Currently CP4AIOps (Concert Operate) supports 7.5M metrics. This number includes metric data ingested and log data that goes through MAD algorithm. In large service provider environments, these numbers are a huge limitation. Especially in Telco Ma...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0

Include version selection option while installing OpenTelemetry collectors.

The current installation always pick the latest and install the collector. If there is a new release between two collector installation, the collector version will be different. It may introduce inventory verification error and potentially a bug f...
about 1 month ago in Instana / OpenTelemetry 0 Submitted

While rolling out Cost Sharing in Cloudability, XP found a gap in how telemetry data is kept up to date. The current process works for a one-time setup, but it does not scale for recurring updates.

Current process to update existing telemetry Extract the telemetry data from Azure Data Explorer (ADX). Generate a CSV file from the query results. Manually upload the CSV to Cloudability. Monthly refresh: for example, a metric for August ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Disable flow chain search limit if there are no chained reports

As per the product design, the field Flow chain limit is enabled by default. When enabled, it allows you to enter the limit which determines how many flow interfaces are considered when chaining from Flow to Performance Metrics. The default value ...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Dedicated NetFlow Collector (DNC) 1 Under review

Improved CyberArk Integration and Vault-Based Credential Synchronisation

We would like to request enhancements to the current CyberArk integration within IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS) and support for additional vault solutions such as HashiCorp Vault. Current Challenges The current CyberArk integration retrieves passwo...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Improve Logging, Auditability and Operational Visibility in TWS

We would like to request enhancements to TWS logging and audit capabilities to improve troubleshooting, operational support, and root cause analysis. Current Challenges Merge logs do not show the actual folder being processed, making it difficult...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Change JVM Heap values inside containers

We already have other technologies doing this: https://scaleops.com/product/java-resource-management/ I spoke with Java and Integration SE here to get some ideas what is going on there. Here are the findings: From Java 10 and beyond, enables autom...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Under review

Language Support for Canadian French

This idea is to provide language support for Canadian French as other languages are supported within CP4AIOPS. The browser support would be is fr-CA
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Enhancing Cloudability's Hierarchical Business Mapping with Universal Base Dimensions

Currently, Cloudability's Hierarchical Business Mapping (HBM) feature operates under a significant constraint a base dimension cannot be reused more than once it has been assigned to an HBM structure. For example, if 'Departmental Hierarchy' uses ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration